Image and Representation Key Concepts in Media Studies

Name: Image and Representation Key Concepts in Media Studies
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ISBN: 9780230203358

ISBN-10: 0230203353

ISBN-13: 9780230203358

Edition: 2nd 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Nick Lacey

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Book details

List price: $47.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 4/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 1.012



List of Tables


List of Figures


Acknowledgements


Introduction to the First Edition


Introduction to the Second Edition



Introduction to Textual Analysis



`Seeing is believing'



Interpreting the world around us



Non-verbal communication (NVC)



Textual analysis



Form



Mise en scene



Making meaning



Medium and the message



Context and meaning



Codes and conventions



Analysing still texts



Images in sequence



Sound



Semiotics



Introduction to semiotics



Saussure



C. S. Peirce



Barthes



Binary oppositions



Semiotic analysis: Nokia 232



Advanced Textual Analysis



Introduction



High culture versus low culture



Audience readings



Intertextuality



New media technologies



Ideology



Hegemony



Discourse



Alternative texts



A history of Western images



Representation



Introduction



Dyer's typography



Re-presentation



Types and stereotypes



Who does the re-presenting?



Audience and representation



Genre and representation: the Western



Propaganda and public relations



Representing Gender



Introduction



Representations of gender



Ways of Seeing gender



Gender, masquerade and the queering of the gaze



Gender in magazines: More and Nuts



Female action heroes



Cindy Sherman: who are women?



Representation and Reality



Introduction



Defining realism



Realism and film



Formal realism in documentaries



Representing the world in the news



Representing the war in Iraq



Other representations


Conclusion


Biblography


Index